How to copy IR.exe programming from one remote to another?

[mikegerard]

Is there an easy way to get my programming on an old remote (7800) over to a newer remote(6131)? I was hoping to just open the old file and select the new remote and be done with it. It looks like it's more complex than that.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

[vickyg2003]

You can't do a copy and paste, because the keys have different keycodes and the I think the 7800 and 6131 use different kinds of keymoves as well.

When I had to do this, I print a Summary report on Landscape mode. I think I had to copy and paste it into wordpad. It was pretty easy to work from.

[The Robman]

There is no automated way to do it. You'll need to re-work all of your upgrades using KM or RM to convert them from the 7800 to the 6131, and you'll have to re-do all your keymoves and macros.

[unclemiltie]

I never tried this but....

You could run EXTINSTALL (at least the new version that I posted a week or so ago) and use your 7800 file as the input file. You'd get an extended 6131 as the result and some of the keys wouldn't line up but it would dutifuly copy the keymoves and macros from the 7800 into the 6131.

It would be an interesting experiment. Lots of the keys on these remotes have the same keycodes so a good bit of it would probably port over.

IF you try it, let us know how it turns out!

[mikegerard]

I tried running Exinstall-2 and cant seem to get it to load...some kind of configuration error. "application configuration is incorrect. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem."

I tried Exinstall also and did not seem to get a combined third file.

Mike

[unclemiltie]

Extinstall-2 requires the VC 8 runtime, you can download it from Microsoft. There is a note in one of the Extinstall-2 threads about where to get it. I should update the announcement thread to find and reference that download. (thanks for reminding me)